Triple

T14995
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William D. Ruckelshaus E299 entity
Predicate employer P7 FINISHED
Object United States Environmental Protection Agency
The United States Environmental Protection Agency is a federal government agency responsible for protecting human health and the environment through regulation, enforcement, and environmental research in the United States.
E1559 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (4 steps)

Every LLM step that produced this triple, in pipeline order — named-entity classification, the disambiguation choices (the exact options shown, with the pick highlighted), and the generated description. The batch + timestamp of each is in the Provenance table below.

NER Named-entity recognition gpt-5-mini
Instruction
Given a phrase, classify it is english named entity (e.g., persons, organizations, works of art) in Latin script, or not (e.g., literals, dates, URLs, verbose phrases). For disambiguation, the statement where the phrase occurs as object is also given. Please return a JSON object with `phrase` (string, the phrase being analyzed) and `is_ne` (boolean, indicating whether the phrase is a Named Entity).
Input
Phrase: United States Environmental Protection Agency | Statement: [William D. Ruckelshaus, employer, United States Environmental Protection Agency]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: United States Environmental Protection Agency
Context triple: [William D. Ruckelshaus, employer, United States Environmental Protection Agency]
  • A. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
    The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is a U.S. federal scientific agency focused on understanding and predicting changes in climate, weather, oceans, and coasts, and managing and conserving marine and coastal resources.
  • B. U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
    The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission is the federal agency responsible for overseeing and ensuring the safe use of nuclear materials and facilities in the United States.
  • C. National Science Foundation
    The National Science Foundation is an independent U.S. government agency that funds and promotes fundamental research and education in all non-medical fields of science and engineering.
  • D. Tennessee Valley Authority
    The Tennessee Valley Authority is a federally owned U.S. corporation created during the New Deal to provide regional economic development, flood control, and electricity generation in the Tennessee Valley.
  • E. United States Department of Transportation
    The United States Department of Transportation is a federal executive department responsible for national transportation policy, safety regulation, and infrastructure across modes such as highways, aviation, rail, and transit.
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NEDg Description generation gpt-5.1
Instruction
Generate a one-sentence description of the target entity. 
You are given a context triple in the form (subject, predicate, object), where the object is the target entity. 
# Instructions
Use the triple to infer relevant information about the entity. Describe the entity based on what is most defining, well-known. 
Avoid repeating the information from the triple, unless really essential.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the target entity]"
Input
Entity: United States Environmental Protection Agency
Triple: [William D. Ruckelshaus, employer, United States Environmental Protection Agency]
Generated description
The United States Environmental Protection Agency is a federal government agency responsible for protecting human health and the environment through regulation, enforcement, and environmental research in the United States.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: United States Environmental Protection Agency
Target entity description: The United States Environmental Protection Agency is a federal government agency responsible for protecting human health and the environment through regulation, enforcement, and environmental research in the United States.
  • A. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
    The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is a U.S. federal scientific agency focused on understanding and predicting changes in climate, weather, oceans, and coasts, and managing and conserving marine and coastal resources.
  • B. U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
    The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission is the federal agency responsible for overseeing and ensuring the safe use of nuclear materials and facilities in the United States.
  • C. National Science Foundation
    The National Science Foundation is an independent U.S. government agency that funds and promotes fundamental research and education in all non-medical fields of science and engineering.
  • D. Tennessee Valley Authority
    The Tennessee Valley Authority is a federally owned U.S. corporation created during the New Deal to provide regional economic development, flood control, and electricity generation in the Tennessee Valley.
  • E. United States Department of Transportation
    The United States Department of Transportation is a federal executive department responsible for national transportation policy, safety regulation, and infrastructure across modes such as highways, aviation, rail, and transit.
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (5 batches)

The batch behind each pipeline step, in order, with when it ran. Timestamps are batch-level — stages were processed in waves, so the object chain (NER → NED1 → NEDg → NED2) reads in order, but predicate / elicitation batches can sit in a different wave.

Step Stage Batch ID Status When
creating Elicitation batch_69a23d7ad88c8190bffe8ab091d86642 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 12:57 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2400257208190b3cd87ad2a06c18f completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:08 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a248e572f08190b52158e063a066bf completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:46 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a2497d04248190a0a9037f79a932ef completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:48 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a249dbe1108190a2a844ba4e570fea completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:50 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:02 a.m.